Review Summary

Nothing else in "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters" — certainly not the labored title, which sounds like would-be "Borat" — is as funny as the first five minutes. Let me qualify that: not much that I have seen in movies recently made me laugh as hard as the opening bit, in which a parade of singing cartoon movie snacks is disrupted by a caterwauling death-metal rendition of familiar pre-film warnings: don't talk or use your cellphone or otherwise disrupt the motion picture experience. And try to stay awake. Adapted from the popular show on the "Adult Swim" programming block on the Cartoon Network and directed by that show's creators, Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, the "Aqua Teen" movie is strictly for cultists, and even they might find less than 90 bongless minutes hard to sit through. — A. O. Scott